“Implications of E-Commerce on Collaborative Business Environment: Insights from Organizational Ecology”

The Volume 1 research was written by VR Salkute, SR Kolhe and Ambedkar Veedhi of North Maharashtra University, India. It is composed of 6 pages posted in International Research Journal last April 2011. The paper discussed the implications of E-Commerce from the perspective of organizational ecology theory, starting with establishing the connection of Internet to the collaborative environment using the three phase analysis in ecological perspective. The objective of the study is to use the 3 phases as framework to study collaboration using E-Commerce. The research has provided illustration of phases of organizational ecology analysis in table form. There is a comparison of concepts in traditional context and internet context, in order to provide analysis of the 3 phases of organizational ecology. An overview of each phase was provided also in this research. The dynamics of internet competition was illustrated by comparing 2 firms using E-Commerce Technique. The matrix describes the dimension of competition that a firm faces when employing the internet. In the latter part of this research, the authors discussed the impact of E-Commerce in their country, India. The discussion of this research included more of geographic boundaries, the influence of Indian government to e-commerce and legislation with respect to e-business in India. And for the finale, the authors discussed the implications of the research to the phases of organizational ecology analysis.
The research title is engaging but in terms of connectivity to the body of research, it has not completely illustrated the pertinence to the title. The abstract of this paper when compared with its core provided an adequate overview but since there’s a slight shift of concentration to the state of e-commerce in India, the abstract of this paper has become deficient due to additional topics discussed. Moreover, the title indicated the implications of e-commerce but the discussion concentrated on one side of...